B. RILEY Expands Investment Banking Group, Announces Sales & Trading Promotions

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Sep 04, 2014, 12:28 ET

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- B. Riley & Co., LLC, (B. RILEY) www.brileyco.com, a leading investment bank which provides a full array of corporate finance, research, sales and trading services has announced promotions and new hires.

The firm made the following announcements today:

Sales & Trading Department

Andy Moore has been promoted to Senior Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets, responsible for the Research, Sales and Trading departments as well as the Corporate and Venture Services Group. Mr. Moore most recently served as Managing Director, Head of Institutional Equity Sales. He joined B. RILEY in 2006 and is located in B. RILEY's Los Angeles headquarters.
Eric Rajewski has been promoted to Managing Director, Head of Institutional Equity Sales. He was serving as Managing Director, San Francisco Institutional Equity Sales. Mr. Rajewski joined B. RILEY in 2011 and will continue to work out of B. RILEY's San Francisco office.

Investment Banking Department

Patrick Nguyen joins as Director in the firm's Investment Banking Group. He comes to B. RILEY from BDO Capital Advisors, where he was Senior Vice President Investment Banking, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and finance restructurings. Earlier, Mr. Nguyen was at Alvarez & Marshal, where he specialized in restructurings, and still earlier at Booz Allen Hamilton. Mr. Nguyen holds an MBA from Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Chobun Hieblinger joins as a Vice President, Investment Banking. Prior to B. RILEY, he worked at RBC Capital Markets, where he was Vice President Investment Banking. Earlier, Mr. Hieblinger was Vice President Investment Banking at Barclays Capital. He developed an expertise in the Energy industry while at Constellation Newenergy, Inc. and AES Corp. Still earlier, he focused on the Utilities industry while at A.T. Kearney, Inc. Mr. Hieblinger earned his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

"We are very pleased to promote Andy and Eric to their new roles and welcome Patrick and Chobun to our team. Each brings a high level of technical expertise and professionalism that will enable us to service a growing number of institutional investor and corporate clients," said Bryant Riley, Chairman.

About B. Riley & Co., LLC

B. Riley & Co., LLC, (B. RILEY) is a leading investment bank which provides corporate finance, research, and sales & trading to corporate, institutional and high net worth individual clients. Investment banking services include initial, secondary and follow-on offerings, institutional private placements, and mergers and acquisitions advisory to public and private companies. The firm is nationally recognized for its highly ranked proprietary equity research.

B. RILEY recently combined with Great American Group, Inc. (OTCBB:GAMR), a leading provider of advisory and valuation services, asset disposition and auction solutions, capital investment, and real estate advisory services.

B. RILEY is headquartered in Los Angeles and maintains offices in New York, San Francisco and Newport Beach, California. It is a member of FINRA and SIPC. For more information, please visit www.brileyco.com or call 310-966-1444.

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